Editing Scouting America (section)

===Training===
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Scouting America offers a wide variety of mandatory and optional training programs in youth protection, outdoor skills and leadership.

====Adult leader training====
Every adult leader must complete [[Youth Protection program (Boy Scouts of America)|Youth Protection Training]]. Position-specific training is also required for all direct-contact leaders. Upon completion of basic training, a leader may wear the Trained emblem on his/her Scouting America uniform.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Youth Protection |url=https://www.scouting.org/training/youth-protection/ |access-date=2025-03-03 |website=Boy Scouts of America |language=en-US}}</ref>

Supplemental skill-specific training is also available to Scouting America volunteers to gain knowledge in outdoors skills including camping, hiking, first aid, Leave No Trace, swim safety, climbing safety, hazardous weather, and other skills.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Supplemental Training Opportunities |url=https://www.scouting.org/training/supplemental-training-opportunities/ |access-date=2025-03-03 |website=Boy Scouts of America |language=en-US}}</ref>

The highest level of Scouting America training is [[Wood Badge (Boy Scouts of America)|Wood Badge]],{{r|bsawbhistory}} focused on helping participants develop leadership skills while participating in an outdoor program over five days. Some councils offer high-adventure training for adults using the [[Powder Horn (Boy Scouts of America)|Powder Horn]] program.{{r|PowderHornInfo}} Leaders can also take the [[Seabadge]] advanced leadership and management course.{{r|SeaScouts}}

====Youth leadership training====
Scout youth leaders may attend the unit-level Introduction to Leadership Skills for Troops. Local councils offer the advanced [[National Youth Leadership Training]] and the National Council offers the [[National Advanced Youth Leadership Experience]] conducted at Philmont Training Center. Scouting America also offers the NYLT Leadership Academy which trains youth staff members from across the country for council-level NYLT courses.{{r|NYLTCourses}}

Venturers and Sea Scouts may attend the unit-level Introduction to Leadership Skills for Crews or Introduction to Leadership Skills for Ships. Crew officers can attend Crew Officer Orientation, and then a council-provided [[Kodiak (Boy Scouts of America)|Kodiak]] leadership training program.{{r|AdultTraining}}

[[Order of the Arrow]] members may attend the National Leadership Seminar, run multiple times each year by each region.{{r|OANLS}}

====National Camping School====
Scouting America operates a National Camping School program which trains people how to run various departments or areas at the Scouts BSA [[summer camp]]s. Some online training is offered, but most areas require an in-person week-long training program at one of the National Camping Schools.{{r|ncsbsa|ncsbsa2}} After successfully completing a week-long program, a person is entitled to wear the National Camping School patch. The regular-size patch may be worn on the right breast shirt pocket, in the temporary patch spot.{{r|ncsbsa3}} National Camping School certification is valid for five years.{{r|ncsbsa4}}

==== COPE ====
COPE, which stands for Challenging Outdoor Personal Experience, is a program that consists of a series of tests of strength, agility, coordination, and problem-solving, individually and within groups.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Peterson |first=Robert |title=The Boy Scouts: An American Adventure |date=1984 |publisher=American Heritage; Distributed by Houghton Mifflin |isbn=0828111731 |location=New York |pages=209–210}}</ref>